ns of their brethren on the other side of the mountains.
There was therefore for these nothing to do but to fall back,
abandoning with a show of opposition positions whence otherwise they
might have inflicted {p.316} considerable loss upon the superior
force assaulting them.

At the present moment, July 26, the British have communication from
Johannesburg and Pretoria to the sea-coast by two routes--to Cape Town
and to Durban. The actions of the Boers show that it is not in their
power seriously to incommode either the one or the other. The trivial
raids performed by their mounted men under De Wet and Botha may
protract the sufferings of the war, and add to the close of the
struggle a certain lustre of persistent resistance; but, barring
events now unforeseen and scarcely to be anticipated, they cannot
change the issue, which has become simply a question of endurance
between combatants immeasurably unequal in resources.

INDEX {p.317}

Admiralty, the British, utmost credit due to its efforts
in transporting troops and material, 86.

American colonies, the, action of, in the old wars contrasted
with colonial action of to-day, 77.

Army Reserve, 25,000 men called out, 32.

Army Service Corps, the, 103.

Australasia and the war, 75.

Australia supplies wheat to the Transvaal, 16.

Barbed-Wire obstacles at battle of Elandslaagte, 54;
defences at Magersfontein, 163.

Barter's, Colonel, brave deed at Modder River, 158.

Barton, Major-General, advances to Chieveley, 217.

Beira, port of, 11.

Belmont, battle of, 148-150.

Bethlehem, 15.

Biggarsberg Range, 39, 48.

Black week of the war for the British, 168.

Bloemfontein, 11;
occupied by the British, 305.

Boers, original plan of campaign of the, 9, 26;
helped by nature of the country, 21;
their decided superiority in numbers at the beginning
of hostilities, 25, 36;
ultimatum, the, 31;
guns, position of, betrayed by their flashes, 52;
procrastination, 58, 123, 129;
forces, estimation of the, 116;
trenches and tactics, 133, 144, 163;
losses in battle, difficulty of arriving at the truth respecting, 202.

Bonaparte, 111.

Brabant, General, 311.

British Army, first order to mobilize issued, 32;
gallantry and skill of the, at the opening of the campaign, 27;
officers' "stupidity," Captain Mahan's striking question on it, 201.

British